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Happy editing! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:13, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

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Please use the preview button to check your edits before you save. If a link that worked before is now red, it means that you have made a typo. See also wp:pipe, which explains where you went wrong at river Great Ouse. --08:13, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Historic Northamptonshire

If you fancy digging into the history of Northants villages to find evidence for old names like e.g. Shitlanger, the Victoria History of the Counties of England is good (though a bit heavy going in the details), but the 'names through the ages' up front is always clear. For an example, see citation 1 at Furtho. You might also find A Vision of Britain through Time useful though I find its administrative boundaries focus unhelpful. I didn't check Shitlanger, btw, but it doesn't surprise me. Woburn Sands in MK had its name changed from "Hogsty End" – well I'm hardly surprised!

While I think of it, if you are doing current populations, {{NOMIS2011}} makes short work of citing the census. 'Britain through Time' has historic populations. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:40, 29 August 2020 (UTC)